v Contents Introduction vii Senator Howard’s Speech Introducing the Fourteenth Amendment to Congress (May 23, 1866) 1 Strauder v. West Virginia (March 1, 1880) 4 The Civil Rights Cases (October 15, 1883) 11 Yick Wo v. Hopkins (May 10, 1886) 22 Plessy v. Ferguson (May 18, 1896) 29 Justice Harlan’s “Great Dissent” in Plessy v. Ferguson (May 18, 1896) 38 Korematsu v. United States (December 18, 1944) 44 Shelley v. Kraemer (May 3, 1948) 56 Sweatt v. Painter (June 5, 1950) 63 Hernandez v. Texas (May 3, 1954) 68 Brown v. Board of Education (May 17, 1954) 73 President Johnson’s Commencement Address at Howard University (June 4, 1965) 79 Loving v. Virginia (June 12, 1967) 89 Graham v. Richardson (June 14, 1971) 96 Reed v. Reed (November 22, 1971) 100 In re Griffiths (June 25, 1973) 105 Washington v. Davis (June 7, 1976) 109 Craig v. Boren (December 20, 1976) 117 Bakke v. University of California (June 28, 1978) 122 Ambach v. Norwick (April 17, 1979) 140 Plyler v. Doe (June 15, 1982) 145 Batson v. Kentucky (April 30, 1986) 154 McCleskey v. Kemp (April 22, 1987) 163 Justice Marshall’s Bicentennial Speech (May 6, 1987) 173
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